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What happened after a few girls were accused of being witches?

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In September 1692 The Salem witch trials began after some girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, said that they were possessed by the devil and blamed three women for having afflicted them a slave a beggar and an old impoverished woman. The first woman was hanged and eighteen others followed. The hysteria had extended and the public turned against the trials.

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